Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 19
The third of four cryptograms from chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Tydndivxuzhnhwhfzhvysdbxheymntihwe,fpbqftnhvchlynqwunhpvyeahwuhzupxgcfvUift.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length74 letters, 22 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Were it certain that Lady Catherine would think so," said Mr. Collins, very gravely - "but I cannot imagine that her Ladyship would at all disapprove of you. And you may be certain that when I have the honour of seeing her again I shall speak in the highest terms of your modesty, economy, and other amiable qualifications."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and, perhaps, you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 19easy, 72 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 50 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 37medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 18medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 50medium, 54 letters
- Chapter 34medium, 98 letters
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